{"id":305954,"date":"2024-03-05T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T07:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305954"},"modified":"2024-03-05T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T07:11:08","slug":"met-office-must-account-for-the-junk-temperature-data-propping-up-net-zero-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305954","title":{"rendered":"Met Office Must Account for the \u2018Junk\u2019 Temperature Data Propping up Net Zero Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pressure is likely to grow in the coming days for the U.K. Met Office to make a full public statement about the state of its nationwide temperature measuring stations. This follows sensational revelations<\/a> in last Friday\u2019s Daily Sceptic<\/em> that nearly eight out of ten sites had huge scientifically-designated \u2018uncertainties\u2019 that essentially disqualified them from providing the accurate data required to promote the collectivist Net Zero agenda. Our report went viral on social media with over 1,300 retweets on X, and it was reposted on a number of sites. The investigative journalist Paul Homewood has covered the Met Office\u2019s temperature claims for many years, and in the light of the new disclosures he noted that if it wanted to continue to use its existing station measurements, it should show a warning that the margin of error is so great \u201cthat they have no statistical significance at all<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, nearly one in three (29.2%) Met Office sites are rated by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) as CIMO Class 5, and this comes with a warning of \u201cestimated uncertainties added by siting of 5C\u00b0\u201d. Class 5 can be termed a \u2018junk\u2019 rating since the WMO gives no guidance on where it can be located. The next to junk Class 4 comes with uncertainties of 2C\u00b0, while Class 3 has a 1C\u00b0 warning. From information disclosed under a Freedom of Information request, the\u00a0Daily Sceptic<\/em>\u00a0compiled the graph below that shows Class 4 accounted for 48.7% of the Met Office\u2019s 380 recording stations. Only 13.7%, or 52 stations are free of \u2018uncertainties\u2019 warnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Net Zero promotion requires reasonably precise measurements of both local and global temperatures and these are simply not available. In the run-up to last year\u2019s COP28 meeting, the BBC ran an explanatory article<\/a> on the significance of the 1.5C\u00b0 threshold, a rise of the Earth\u2019s temperature based on the ending of the Little Ice Age. \u201cEvery tenth of a degree of warming matters, but as you get warmer each increment matters more\u201d, said Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science at the University of Oxford, and a co-ordinating author of the IPCC\u2019s special report on 1.5C\u00b0 in 2018. It is difficult to see how precision down to 0.1C\u00b0 can be achieved by consulting current Met Office data, let alone the ability to claim to two decimal points, as the Met Office did, that last year in the U.K. was only 0.06C\u00b0 cooler than the all-time annual record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comments on social media following the Daily Sceptic <\/em>publication were often damning. On Homewood\u2019s site, \u2018YorksChris\u2019 observed, \u201cwow, this is horrendous\u2026 some of the locations of the so-called professional stations simply amaze me!\u201d, while \u2018magasox\u2019 commented that this was huge<\/em>, adding, \u201csceptics should shout it from the rooftops at every opportunity\u201d. Heads, he felt, should roll, \u201cbut of course they won\u2019t\u201d. On the Daily Sceptic<\/em> blog, \u2018For a fist full of roubles\u2019 looked forward to mainstream media latching on to this, \u201cand revealing how the powers that be deliberately mislead us\u201d. On the U.S.-based Watts Up With That?<\/em> site over 300 posts<\/a> greeted the news, with \u2018UK-Weather-Lass\u2019 stating: \u201cIt\u2019s about time there was a public inquiry into how rotten and unfit for purpose the Met Office is, and why it is allowed to continue to be so.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problems with the Met Office data are mainly caused by increasing urbanisation which has encroached on the space around stations and corrupted measurements with artificial heat. Similar problems have been identified around the world leading to ever-increasing doubts about the accuracy of frequently quoted \u2018global\u2019 temperatures. Scientists estimate that heat corruption is likely to be responsible for up to 30% of warming claimed by the meteorological databases. The Met Office adds its figures to global compilations but the increasingly politicised state-funded operation also uses its data to declare almost constant temperature \u2018records\u2019. The Daily Sceptic<\/em> has investigated the heat records declared since 2000 and found that all bar two should be disqualified. Many of them have been set in \u2018junk\u2019 Class 5 and most of the rest in Class 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Class 5 records include the highest daily maximum temperature in Northern Ireland, declared in 2021 at Castlederg. The highest January monthly temperature was set this year at Achfary and this Class 5 site also holds the record set in December 2019. Three U.K. area records were also set at Class 5 sites including England NW, East Anglia and England SE and Central S. The latter record was provided by St. James\u2019s Park, which was one of five sites that was said to top 40C\u00b0 on July 19th, 2022. This particular event was lauded at the time<\/a> by the Met Office as a \u201cmilestone in climate history\u201d. Another one of the 40C\u00b0 sites, Northolt airport, is also Class 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the WMO, a Class 5 site is one where nearby obstacles \u201ccreate an inappropriate environment for a meteorological measurement that is intended to be representative of a wide area\u201d. According to a previous FOI request from Paul Homewood, the Met Office noted that Class 5 data, \u201cwill be flagged and not quoted in national records\u201d. This does not appear to happen. On July 25th, 2019, the site at the Cambridge Botanic Gardens was credited with an new U.K. temperature record of 38.7C\u00b0. The Cambridge Botanic Gardens is a Class 5 site, and it still holds the July record for the region of East Anglia. All these records should be removed, or at least flagged with the large uncertainties set down by the WMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ditto \u2018near junk\u2019 Class 4, where the crowd of record holders is higher. Class 4 sites include Charterhall where the highest Scottish temperature was set in 2022, and Hawarden Airport, home to the highest Welsh recording. A monthly U.K. record for August was set in 2003 at Faversham, while no less than five U.K. areas have records attributed to this class that comes with a WMO \u2018uncertainty\u2019 of 2C\u00b0. The all-time British record was set on July 19th, 2022 at a Class 3 site, which comes with WMO uncertainty of 1C\u00b0. Set halfway down the runway at RAF Coningsby, the record stood for just 60 seconds at 3:12pm, and was preceded by a rise and fall of 0.6C\u00b0 either side of the event. A previous FOI from the Daily Sceptic<\/em> disclosed that three typhoon fighter jets were landing on the runway at or around the time the record was set. All of these records should also be ditched as well, or given appropriate warnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far as can be seen, no Met Office heat record has been set since 2000 at pristine Class 1 sites, which might not surprise given there are only 24 of them. Only two \u2013 the highest U.K. February temperature at 21.2C\u00b0 and November at 22.4C\u00b0 \u2013 have been set at near pristine Class 2 locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most propagandising for Net Zero revolves around higher temperatures, and without this ammunition the project will quickly wither. It explains why these so-called \u2018records\u2019 are rarely out of the mainstream media headlines. The high temperature readings are weaponised at the national level, but local media is also targeted. This can be shown by considering the photograph below from Google Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the site of the Sheffield temperature station. On July 19th, 2022, the local Star <\/em>newspaper reported that the city had smashed the temperature record with over 39C\u00b0 for the first time<\/a>. According to the Met Office, the newspaper reported, the record reached 39.4C\u00b0 on July 18th. The red marker shows where the Sheffield readings are taken, hard by a busy road with a large bus lane, surrounded by either city buildings or heavy vegetation, and located at or near what appears to be a concrete park. It might not surprise to learn that Sheffield is a Class 5 site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met Office\u2019s Chief Scientist and leading Net Zero promoter Professor Stephen Belcher states that \u201cin a climate unaffected by human influence, climate modelling shows that it is virtually impossible for temperatures in the U.K. to reach 40C\u00b0\u201d. It is not thought he was referring to the influence of typhoon jets or the 95 bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s Environment Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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